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heise | Z-Image in der Praxis: Schnelle KI-Bilder ohne Limit – sogar mit wenig VRAM
Mit Z-Image erschaffen selbst günstige Grafikkarten in Sekunden hochwertige KI-Bilder – für Social Media, Flyer und Plakate oder als Vorlage für KI-Filme.

Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99 /month Meta Verified (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/facebook-is-te…

Facebook is testing a link posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.

Today in a meeting "Thats going to put us over the 2TB limit." I ask if that is a storage limit or a bandwidth limit. "A. Limit." Huh. Nevermind. #5O'ClockYet?

I miss the limits. Forces concise communication. Long posts/threads should be a post on your site. https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115733189272793078

"This means Scotland rapidly expanding its own decarbonisation efforts not just to limit our need for US fuels but also to limit our need for fuels in general – if the civilised world follows then basic economics means that over supply and under demand will crash the price of oil and make it economically unviable for the US to do things like invade other countries for their resources" -- excellent point, @…

EPA moves to limit scope of clean water law to reduce amount of wetlands it covers (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/epa-clean-water-act-wetlands-protection-farmers-0b2447e3bfd86f4766d4ef74edcd6dbd
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p111#a251117p111

„EU makes it even easier for Chinese EV companies to dominate the European car market“ There, fixed it for you.
EU Moves To Ease 2035 Ban On Internal Combustion Cars - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/003222/eu-moves-to-…

US plans to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves could by 2050 consume 🔥more than a tenth of the world’s remaining carbon budget to limit global heating to 1.5C, according to an exclusive analysis.
The calculation highlights how any moves to further exploit the
South American nation’s oil reserves
– the largest in the world,
at least on paper
– would put increasing pressure on climate goals,
and risk plunging the globe further into climate catastrophe.
<…

YouTube now lets parents set time limits on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from 15 minutes to two hours, with an option for zero minutes coming soon (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861804/youtube-shorts-teen-time-…

Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling
YouTube has announced a feature that will allow parents to manually set a time limit for their kids’ Shorts feed, along with more options for setting up child and teen accounts.

Syndicalist unions are fundamentally different from the bureaucratic trade unions that dominate today. Modern unions function as institutional frameworks that negotiate within capitalism, often acting to preserve the system rather than challenge it. They centralize power in hierarchical leadership, limit direct worker control, and prioritize legal contracts and state approval over genuine worker autonomy.
Syndicalism rejects this institutionalized framework. It refuses collective barga…

Donation to your mastodon server will be cheaper https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115737372852805627

"US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit"
#US #USA #America #Venezuela

Harbaugh to limit interviews to just a few teams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47573091/john-harbaugh-limit-coaching-interviews-teams

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection includes,
--A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder,
--Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure,
--The war on disinformation has been dismantled,
--Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 12/6/25
A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder, Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure, The war on disinformation has been dismantled, Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data to limit voting rights, The Wassenaar Arrangement can help limit spyware exports

Finally an RGB image of comet #3IATLAS from images taken by #GeminiNorth during the 26 November #shadowTheScientists session: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2532/ - the coma has become bluer due to more gas emission. Also published today: an X-ray image by XMM-Newton at https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/XMM-Newton_sees_comet_3I_ATLAS_in_X-ray_light with explanations in http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005646.txt which also contains more 3I news.
Meanwhile the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae2915 claims an upper limit for 3I's nucleus diameter of only some 750 meters from the measured non-gravitational acceleration (NGA) parameters: that would be waaay more stringent than the 5.6 km upper limit from early Hubble observations reported in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf8d8 (where also a lower limit of 440 meters is stated).

Familienleben am Limit - Wie Paul gegen „Bösewichte“ in seinem Körper ringt #News #Nachrichten …

The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/house-passe…

House Passes Bill to Limit China’s Remote Access to U.S. Chips
The House of Representatives on Monday passed a bipartisan bill that expands U.S. export controls to restrict Chinese companies’ ability to remotely access advanced American AI chips at data centers outside China. The bill, the Remote Access Security Act, is the latest step in Washington’s effort to limit China’s use of critical U.S. technologies due to national security concerns. It is

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gaslighting

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child limit - Big Issue
https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/nigel-farage-beer-prices-two-child-benefit-limit/
Same old Tories, effectively.
No wonder he won't deba…

Farage puts pints over poverty with plan to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.

Ann Telhaes: Pam Biondi
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WixB!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi…

PCIe update: I'm getting through the flow control initialization for VC0 (the only one my minimal PCIe endpoint will support) and the host is now sending me a TLP. This appears to be a "set slot power limit" message request which I'm going to ignore because I'm not in an actual slot.
But I still need to ACK it and send flow control DLLPs, so that's next on the list. Right now the host repeatedly sends the TLP (not getting an ACK) until it times out from lack o…

I missed this one:
#12886 [css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12886
Essentially a discussion how responsive text can satisfy 1.4.4, especially in this fit-to-container pitch from Google.
I added a comment …

[css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit · Issue #12886 · w3c/csswg-drafts
In the original issue we received valuable feedback that a native fit-to-width solution can potentially introduce a simple way for authors to violate Success Criterion 1.4.4 Resize Text, in the sam...

Pic 6: Special teams struggles, turnovers limit Cowboys in 44-30 loss to Lions https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-special-teams-struggles-turnovers-limit-cowboys-in-44-30-loss-to-lions

Quantum computers must be cooled to extremely low temperatures to minimize vibrations and prevent errors.
So far, chip-based systems have been limited to inefficient and slow cooling methods.
Now, a team of researchers at MIT and MIT Lincoln Laboratory has implemented a much faster and more energy-efficient method for cooling photonic chip-based quantum computers.
Their approach achieved cooling to about 10 times below the limit of standard laser cooling.
Key to this te…

Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers
Researchers demonstrated a new method of cooling trapped ions using chip-based systems, which could enable more stable and scalable quantum computers and quantum sensors.

House Votes to Limit States' Power to Block Pipelines (Ari Natter/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/house-votes-to-limit-states-power-to-block-pipelines
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p113#a251211p113

Getting back into planning a whole week of meals. With having to be at work four days a week I need to plan. Wife is disabled and there is a limit on what she can do.
Tonight, chicken Kiev and spiced potatoes.
Sunday, macaroni casserole. Leftovers I put into containers for frozen lunches.
Monday, roast chicken, turnip, stuffing, mixed vegetables and I will make a pudding.
Tuesday and Wednesday are leftovers.
I still have to figure out Thursday and Friday.…

Ok, I’m procrastinating downloading a bunch of vids with yt-dlp and at this point I’m already reaching the tabs limit on this Safari profile
What’d be the best way of downloading a bunch of videos with yt-dlp while still keeping a good control of what failed and what succeeded? (this is basically impossible from its output if you feed it a bunch of links in a single go)
I was wanting a webui I could selfhost and it’d show progress and status for each video it’s downloading (and let me pass custom options to the yt-dlp command, such as filename), but should I just make a script with a for loop for each URL instead?

I am so, so tired of having to vet every one of my choices around a technology. Which platform? Which settings? What's a privacy risk? What has downstream negative social consequences? How do I compensate for the functionality I lose when I make a conscious choice to limit or refuse?
1/n
#rant

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
WOOM:
🎵 Prototype
#WOOM
https://woom.bandcamp.com/track/prototype-limit-to-your-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gjQwd0yaseqxwPDHRmAUz

#Mattermost drama... Self-hosted users discover a built-in message limit added to v11. There are work-arounds, but many are... annoyed and wondering about the future.
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermo

Message limit 10000 team edition · Issue #34271 · mattermost/mattermost
We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...

The only advantage of the AI bubble is that when someone brings the "memory is cheap" cannon again, you can ask: "excuse me, but have you *seen* the prices?!"
Also, there should be a law that whenever you say "memory is cheap", you are obliged to buy and install the memory for all the participants. To prevent from abuse, let's limit it to doubling the memory (both RAM and disks) in all PCs of every participant.

Yes, Switzerland🇨🇭 loves ⛰️ peaks. But when it comes to solar power, it's okay to take a little bit off the top.
From 2026 onwards, (new) solar power installations must limit their peak capacity to 70%. This only slightly reduces production, but it does reduce the simultaneous load on the grid.
https://www.…

Neue Regeln bei der Einspeisung von Solarstrom
Die Energiewende ist in vollem Gang. Solaranlagen boomen und liefern immer mehr erneuerbaren Strom. Eine positive Entwicklung, die auf unsere Energie- und Klimaziele einzahlt. Doch wenn an sonnigen Mittagen alle Solaranlagen gleichzeitig Strom einspeisen, entstehen Leistungsspitzen, die das Stromnetz an seine Grenzen bringen. Es herrscht sozusagen Stau im Netz.

Pic 6: Special teams struggles, turnovers limit Cowboys in 44-30 loss to Lions https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-special-teams-struggles-turnovers-limit-cowboys-in-44-30-loss-to-lions

I'm a fan of holding people (and companies) accountable so today when a company truck sped around me when I dared to actually drive within the speed limit I made a point to contact the company and complain.
Sure, there's a chance nothing will happen but it won't stop me from trying. If I see bad behavior I will call it out.

oh nice, redpocket brought back my favorite sim plan (for my kids), and they upgraded it!
For $30/yr, you get unlimited text/talk, and 200MB per month. For those of you with low data needs (or who specifically want to limit their kids data usage): https://www.ebay.com/itm/136840233242

$2.50/Mo RedPocket Prepaid Wireless Phone Plan+Kit: UNLIMITED Talk /Text + 200MB | eBay
Choose the network that works best for you and your phone! THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. B. Text Services. 200MB 5G Data. E. RedPocket service plans are for individual use only and not for resale.

X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok reply command, but free users can still create sexual deepfakes through the standalone Grok app or site (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gasligh…

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

Email purporting to come from Netflix saying that they've been unable to
"auto-recharge your membership because you have reached your monthly spending limit. We would love to have you back. If you change your mind, simply restart your membership and update your payment details ...blah blah"
Very clever of them since I've never had, nor ever will have, a netflix account.
Email comes from a Polish domain, apparently.

The 0.5 Ratio Limit and Geometry-Induced Missing Energy: Universal 3D Quantum Constraints on Fragment Distributions from Attosecond to Subatomic Scales
Jinzhen Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08255

Meta testet Limit für Link-Beiträge
Noch zweimal am Tag können professionelle Nutzer und Seitenbetreiber Links in einem Beitrag auf Facebook posten. Mehr kostet Geld.
https://www.heise.de/news/Meta-teste…

Microsoft dreht an der Preisschraube: Ab Juli 2026 wird Microsoft 365 für Unternehmen und Privatnutzer teurer – teils deutlich. Begründung: „Angepasster Wert“ der Produkte. Faktisch heißt das: Mehr Cloud, mehr KI, mehr Kosten. Profit kennt eben kein Abo-Limit.
@…
#Microsoft

“Gaza’s total population ‘fell by about 254,000 people, a 10.6% decline compared with pre-conflict estimates’, the research notes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/02/more-than-100000-civilians-killed-war-crimes-out-of-co…

A long and constructive interview of Gordon Brown on this morning's BBC Today Programme. Even the interviewer, Amol Rajan, managed to limit his customary sneering. Well worth listening to.

"Because professional, well-trained law enforcement officers do not roll up to a woman in her car, hide their identities, crowd her vehicle, and execute her in broad daylight. But ICE did and does.
And this administration keeps trying to get us to forget that."
https://heatherdelaneyre…

Trump’s endless web of lies
In 1993, I was sixteen and a brand new driver when I was pulled over for going six miles over the speed limit at the bottom of a steep hill. It was the first time I’d ever been stopped by a police officer. And I was so nervous I started to shake because I didn’t understand what was happening. I didn’t realize I had picked up that much speed. The officer was hostile and irritated by my shaking hands as I passed him my license and registration. So much so that he made me get out of the car …

…dann schauen wir mal, warum der SBC im Netz zwar pingt, aber SSH verweigert. Serial to the rescue…

The current AI models let you easily experiment with application ideas like never before. For experimentation, quickly trying out ideas, they are great. That is something completely different from serious/professional use I am fully aware. Still your creativity is now the limit, not your knowledge of python, jscript etc and that is fascinating .
#AI

Park Service orders changes to staff ratings, a move experts call illegal
A top National Park Service official has instructed park superintendents to limit the number of staff who get top marks in performance reviews
-- a move that experts say violates federal code and could make it easier to lay off staff.

Parks leadership generally evaluate individual employees annually on a five-point scale,
with a three rating given to those who are successful in achieving their go…

Park Service orders changes to staff ratings, a move experts call illegal
Lower performance ratings could be used as a factor in layoff decisions and will demoralize staff, advocates say.

5. “But what are we supposed to do exactly?!” − Fight for digital sovereignty. Fight for a more independent financial system. Stop honoring US pharma patents. Form large coalitions to threaten economic sanctions. Limit travel, or increase the friction of it. Target the comfort of the billionaires who are bankrolling this. There is a long list of actions countries can take if •and only if• their populations create the political pressure for it.

"Regardless of the legal speed limit, your Buick must be operated at
speeds faster than 85 MPH (140kph)."
-- 1987 Buick Grand National owners manual.

And all 32 #AmazonLeo satellites have been deployed by the first #Ariane 64: good news for Arianespace and Amazon but probably bad news for astronomy as the previous satellites of this #megaconstellation have proven to be brighter than they should be. As this diagram from the recent paper "Brightness Characterization and Modeling for Amazon Leo Satellites" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07708 - shows they are almost always brighter than the informally established 7 mag. limit. And there are no indications that the design of the 32 added to the constellation today had been modified to make them dimmer ... while the next Ariane launch will carry more of them.

"Another important element of anarcho-syndicalism is that it doesn’t limit itself to workplace activity, seeing tactics such as rent strikes and unemployed organising as means to further working class demands outside the workplace, alongside the more typically syndicalist direct action of strikes, occupations and sabotage by workers at the point of production."
--

Til: USB docking stations can also have a limit about the size of HDDs. - an order was placed...

Supreme Court to decide if Trump can limit the constitutional right to citizenship at birth (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-trump-can-limit-constitutional-right-citizenship-rcna244701
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p82#a251205p82

Life Hack for those without unlimited downloads:
If you go over your limit, make sure to reupload that data so you don't get charged extra! :blobcatthinksmart:

Radiative Seesaw Model with Baryon Number Violation and Upper Limit on Neutron-anti-Neutron Transition Time
Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Nobuchika Okada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07136

Seahawks' Darnold 'better' but will limit throwing https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47686811/seahawks-say-sam-darnold-feels-better-limit-throwing-week

Spyware maker is hijacking diplomatic efforts to limit commercial hacking, civil society warns https://therecord.media/spyware-maker-pall-mall-process-reputation

Sources: Amazon is seeking supplier discounts, from low single digits to 30%, as it moves to reverse concessions made to limit the shock of Trump's tariffs (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6f7ad580-a237-4cb7-86bc-f68e4e44f511
…

👏👏👏
- "Limit height of tall images in posts" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37035
- "Contain tall videos in full-width video container"

So I migrated all my git repos to a different host.... When I mirrored my fluxcd repo, I copied from a stale checkout.....
Needless to say my "production" monocluster instantly tore everything down.
On a positive note, everything came back together when I fixed my repo because gitops. Also helps Im still using NFS for persistent storage.
Every single certificate had to be reissued. I was afraid letsencrypt was going to rate limit me, but everything was fine.…

Various countries are trying to limit the access of children and some teenagers to Social Media.
Why isn't this framed as limiting the access of Social Media to children and teenagers?

Limit ohne Grundlage? - 50er im Niemandsland: Lenkerin bekämpft Strafe #News #Nachrichten

Days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday,
a day after federal authorities used #tear #gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists
and state and local leaders #sued to fight the enforce…

Tensions flare in Minnesota as federal agents and protesters square off
Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense. Federal officers sprayed eye irritant and dropped tear gas at a swarm of activists Tuesday in Minneapolis. Students, meanwhile, walked out of a suburban school, part of the ongoing tension over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement sweeps. Minnesota and its two largest cities are suing the government to try to halt or limit the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a woman…

MDN accessibility claim about CSS carousels:
https://mastodon.social/@mdn/115770891074082150
My very limited PR to limit that false claim:
h…

Microsoft dreht an der Preisschraube: Ab Juli 2026 wird Microsoft 365 für Unternehmen und Privatnutzer teurer – teils deutlich. Begründung: „Angepasster Wert“ der Produkte. Faktisch heißt das: Mehr Cloud, mehr KI, mehr Kosten. Profit kennt eben kein Abo-Limit.
@…
#Microsoft

I think this is progress.
I fixed the typoed atu_unr_limit and now the ATU is working, translating accesses to the 0x1000_0000 AXI space to configuration reads and writes in the PCIe bus.
But the data is always zero. I'm trying to write 0x41410000 to the BAR and it comes out as zeroes, and while the protocol analyzer shows me successfully reading 1327:1c5c which is the VID/PID of my test SSD, it comes out as zero on the AXI side.

The US FDA says it will limit regulation of non-medical wellness wearables and AI software, provided they don't make claims about disease diagnosis or treatment (Puyaan Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar

„News Tower“ angespielt: So frisch, dass man die Tinte riechen kann
Werft die Druckmaschinen an! Sparrow Night liefert mit der Zeitungs-Sim „News Tower“ eines der originellsten und besten Management-Spiele des Jahres ab.

Microwave electrometry with quantum-limited resolutions in a Rydberg atom array
Yao-Wen Zhang, De-Sheng Xiang, Ren Liao, Hao-Xiang Liu, Biao Xu, Peng Zhou, Yijia Zhou, Kuan Zhang, Lin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05413 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05413
arXiv:2512.05413v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Microwave (MW) field sensing is foundational to modern technology, yet its evolution, reliant on classical antennas, is constrained by fundamental physical limits on field, temporal, and spatial resolutions. Here, we demonstrate an MW electrometry that simultaneously surpasses these constraints by using individual Rydberg atoms in an optical tweezer array as coherent sensors. This approach achieves a field sensitivity within 13% of the standard quantum limit, a response time that exceeds the Chu limit by more than 11 orders of magnitude, and in-situ near-field mapping with {\lambda}/3000 spatial resolution. This work establishes Rydberg-atom arrays as a powerful platform that unites quantum-limited sensitivity, nanosecond-scale response time, and sub-micrometer resolution, opening new avenues in quantum metrology and precision electromagnetic field imaging.
toXiv_bot_toot

About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits (Valerie Gonzalez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-ice-children-detained-lawsuit-dilley-75530212ec0959eda2b42aada3fbe46a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p147#a251209p147

Gäste oft respektlos - Skilifte am Limit: „Parkplätze voll, Nerven blank“ #News #Nachrichten

Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-11/musk-s-grok-ai-blocked-in-indo…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Cardi B:
🎵 Bodak Yellow
#CardiB
https://whoslimit.bandcamp.com/track/cardi-b-bodak-yellow-limit-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6KBYefIoo7KydImq1uUQlL

Fun game idea for a very specific crowd: optimization race.
Given a large compute heavy codebase, say ngscopeclient, each player picks a block that they think has significant potential for speedups. Everything is in play from algorithmic restructuring to porting to GPU.
After the time limit the player with the largest percent speedup relative to baseline is declared the winner.

Defense policy bill includes provision to limit defense secretary's travel budget unless unedited boat strike video is released (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/defense-policy-bill-includes-provision-limiting-defense-secretarys-tra-rcna248117
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p3#a251209p3

There is now a systematic effort afoot to break down,
or render impotent,
key institutional players that could serve to limit Trump’s efforts to manipulate the outcome of the 2026 elections.
The White House announced it would soon be delivering another executive order going after
mail-in voting, and, in particular,
that it would be targeting California’s voting system which, it alleged without evidence, was rife with fraud.
In the wake of lawsuits filed b…

Trump Militarized Cities in ICE Crackdowns. Is Militarizing the Ballot Box Next?
Trump has put election deniers in charge of overseeing “election integrity” for the 2026 midterms.

A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/google-must-limit-d…

Russian media: Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, as the government promotes its Max "super app" (Deana Kjuka/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alarm bei OpenStreetMap! 🚨 Das freie Kartenprojekt steht vor einer ernsten Herausforderung: Tausende KI-Bots greifen aktuell massenhaft Daten ab und bringen damit das gesamte Projekt in Gefahr.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11156876?wt_mc=sm.re

Senate votes to limit Trump on Venezuela (Connor O'Brien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/senate-votes-to-restrict-trump-on-venezuela-00716127
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p98#a260108p98

A just-released compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act
— which puts Congress’ stamp on Pentagon programs and policy each year
— has been in the works for months.
The sprawling legislation,
set for a vote as soon as this week,
would place new restrictions on reducing troop levels in Europe
-- a bipartisan rebuke of Trump administration moves that lawmakers fear would limit U.S. commitments on the continent.
The measure stands in s…

Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c4e81a67-cd5b-48b4-9749-92ecf116313d

Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/rahm-emanuel-age-limit-75.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFA.i8Vx.HIQr1OzKXO0X&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p148#a260121p148

X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/gro…

Lawmakers seek to limit DHS power to shuffle cash in funding bill (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/06/congress/dhs-reprogramming-crackdown-00713569
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p4#a260107p4

You see some effort on the part of Congress to assert itself in the realm of war.
But it failed predominantly on party lines
Republicans predominantly were supporting the president and whatever it happens to be that he would like to do.
Moderate Republicans and Republicans who are in less safe districts were and are more likely to at least stand up a little bit to the president,
but there’s a very small number of them.

House rejects resolutions to limit Trump's military campaign
The House has rejected a pair of resolutions that would put a check on President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels and the nation of Venezuela. Democrats forced the votes using war powers resolutions as Trump has stepped up his threats against the South American nation. Congress has questioned how the U.S. military is conducting a campaign that has destroyed 25 vessels allegedly carrying drugs and killed at least 95 people. The legislation would have forced the T…

Seeing Life at the Quantum Limit
Congratulations to
Dr Nicolas Mauranyapin,
winner of QUBIC’s inaugural Scientific Achievement Award - Cell Theme!
Nico has built a quantum-limited microscope, so sensitive it operates at the quantum shot noise limit,
the same benchmark used in gravitational wave detection.
This means it can capture the faintest signals nature allows.
This breakthrough enables real-time observation of living cells without damage,

The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16 age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-backs-mini…

European Parliament backs 16+ age rule for social media
Call comes as several EU countries prepare to restrict social media for kids.